After three seasons at Union College, Detroit Red Wings prospect Jack Adams is on the move. Adams missed the entire 2019-20 season due to a torn ACL and MCL suffered in Detroit development camp, and has been seeking a fresh start this off-season. He has finally announced that he will join Providence College this season with two years of NCAA eligibility remaining.
Adams, 23, is a hulking power forward who was selected in the sixth round by the Red Wings in 2017. The 6’6″ right wing recorded 35 points in 66 games with Union through his first two seasons and now takes his two-way talents to PC. It’s a program that Jack is familiar with, as older brother Mark Adams spent five years in Providence, including winning an NCAA Championship in 2015.
The current iteration of the Friars may not be a title favorite, but is still home to eight NHL draft picks, now including Adams. Up front, Adams will join fellow Eastern Conference prospects Brett Berard (NYR), Patrick Moynihan (NJD), Tyce Thompson (NJD), and Chase Yoder (PIT), a group that could grow more dangerous if they all stay through next season.
Good for him & good luck!
Absolutely. And if his playing career doesn’t pan out in the long run, maybe he can coach with a name like that.
@M34 – And, if he’s good enough, he’ll win the “Scotty Bowman” award! :)
It seems like only yesterday he was just a division trying to find his way. Then he moved on and became another trophy but with big dreams. And now look at him. Godspeed.
Wouldn’t it be funny if he gets a shot at playing for the Redwings, and whomever is the coach wins the Jack Adams Trophy for best coach in the NHL , Jack Adams could present the Award
I have to believe that once he is done his ‘forever’ school hockey, gets to perhaps AHL type hockey, and is good enough to move to the NHL – he’ll be – 26 YEARS OLD!
Without semi-pro experience – I am afraid not. A good player needs the ‘hard knocks’ of OHL & AHL hockey.
Good luck though – prove me wrong, please. We need a good big, strong guy on the front-end
Won’t happen-unfortunately. Two more years of school (a forever guy, I guess) and a year or so of pro hockey, and he is 27. Just can’t see it!